I was watching a documentary of an excrusion possiblly for the SF. It had a mixed variety of passenger cars but at the end were these large, white, double decker cars with no side doors on the lower level. They did have windows though. I just read the forum called “what did I see?” and the cars looked kind of like the autoracks shown on the forum. Does anyone have a photo or know what I saw on the film? Hope I can get some info.
,Heartland Flyer 1001
I don’t recall at the moment what they’re called, but they are made in Colorado for excursion trains. Alaska railroad and the Canadian Pacific both use them.
Really? CP has them? I’m having a hard time visualizing…
They’re used on an excursion train called the “Rocky Mountain Mountaineer.” Perhaps it’s CN and not CP.
No, I know what the Mountaineer cars look like, and that was not them.
It’s an invasion!!! [alien][alien][:D]
Do they look anything like this?
NOPE, they were all white, double decker, but only had windows at the top that were only facing out, not on the roof.
hf1001
Yes it was BNSF who owns these cars.
Now they got double decker shackle cars…
Here is what I saw.
In the picture, they do have side doors. So, what are they using thses for ?
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I bet they’re test cars. Or maybe buisness cars.
They are Business cars and were former SP gallery cars rebuilt for the BN and others operate on the Sierra Railroad dinner train out of Oakdale CA. They have worn several paint schemes and not sure whether this is the latest or they now have some fluted stainless steel panels added. Anyway they mostly see use in employee specials on the BNSF and can be found at different times all over the system.
These cars are used on BNSF’s buisiness car trains. I know because they were just in Oklahoma to transport the govorner during the centinnial.